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Susan B. Anthony -
"Champion of Women's Rights"

As a champion of women's rights, Susan Brownell Anthony devoted her life to equal rights for all and helped women earn the right to vote. The daughter of Quaker abolitionists, Daniel and Lucy Anthony, Susan was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.(Abolitionists fought to end slavery). Living on her father's cotton farm, she was one of eight children. Her parents were supporters of women's rights and taught their daughters to be strong and independent. When Susan was seven, her family moved to New York and eventually settled in Battenville, New York and later Rochester, New York. The towns are located in the northwest region of New York.
Susan B. Anthony's family home in Rochester, NY.
Susan B. Anthony's family
home in Rochester, NY
During her childhood, the young girl attended a Quaker boarding school, in Philadelphia. Quakers are Christians and believe in equality among men and women. Upon finishing her education, Susan returned to up state New York and began teaching at age seventeen. Her salary helped her family during the Depression, of 1837. Many people did not have jobs at this time and found it very hard to support their families. Since Susan was a woman, she was not entitled to the same pay as a male teacher. In fact her salary was one-fifth of a male teacher's. For example, if she was paid $20.00 a week, then a male teacher was paid $100.00 a week. Sticking to the ideas of her father instilled in her, Susan protested against the non-equal pay. The New York school system did not react positively, and they fired Susan. By 1846, the twenty six year old Susan got a job as a teacher at a distinguished school, in upstate New York. In order to keep her independence, she never married and she still supported herself.

Susan B. Anthony as a young woman
Susan B. Anthony as a young woman
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